Foundation philanthropy actively funded the era’s major racial and anti-Semitism research.

Evidence

The idea for the project and the generous financial support it received were essentially the work of the then president of the board of directors of the Carnegie Corporation in New York, Frederick B. Keppel. In the 1940s Keppel was also the only member of the Board of Appeal, which passed final judgement on visa applications from `enemy aliens’, who opposed tighter immigration regulations after the German invasion of the Soviet Union. He thus succeeded in getting visas granted to many refugees who would otherwise have been refused them. More or less simultaneously with Myrdal’s completion of his work, the American Jewish Committee, the oldest and most influential of the four large Jewish defence agencies, 216 took the decision to contribute towards the funding of the anti-Semitism project at the Institute of Social Research. This was an event almost as remarkable as what the Carnegie Corporation had done. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 375

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels the AJC’s funding of the Institute’s Studies in Prejudice from the Frankfurt School chapter. — connects to: The Institute pursued anti-Semitism research independently of outside funding, titling it for American audiences. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 297; Jewish defense agencies helped fund the Frankfurt School’s anti-Semitism research — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1478; A funding contract with the AJC turned anti-Semitism into an explicit research topic. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 381 (+1 more)
• SEED: Angle: the philanthropic architecture that made mid-century American social science possible.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The Institute pursued anti-Semitism research independently of outside funding, titling it for American audiences. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 297; Jewish defense agencies helped fund the Frankfurt School’s anti-Semitism research — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1478; A funding contract with the AJC turned anti-Semitism into an explicit research topic. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 381 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Jewish defense agencies helped fund the Frankfurt School’s anti-Semitism research #exemplifies (0.92) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1478